Somehow Valve managed to prevent ANY leaks regarding DOTA2's development. Nobody even IMAGINED that it was so close to release.

If they're holding a $1M USD tourney, that is going to be streamed as a means to showcase the game, one can only assume that it's **VERY** close to going retail.

I would assume they'll be releasing somewhere from october ---> early December. **VERY** ballsy on the part of Valve; it seems they intend to compete directly with Diablo 3 and Blizzard. I can't think of 2 bigger PC-exclusive titles that have come out in the past few years.

You haven't been following the leaks closely then, we knew DotA 2 was in beta since November of last year because of some changelog leaks. We also knew there was a tournament at Gamescom happening because a shoutcaster leaked his invite letter from Valve. We even have had a list of the Valve servers running DotA 2, and you could see who was in them.

Somehow Valve managed to prevent ANY leaks regarding DOTA2's development. Nobody even IMAGINED that it was so close to release.

If they're holding a $1M USD tourney, that is going to be streamed as a means to showcase the game, one can only assume that it's **VERY** close to going retail.

I would assume they'll be releasing somewhere from october ---> early December. **VERY** ballsy on the part of Valve; it seems they intend to compete directly with Diablo 3 and Blizzard. I can't think of 2 bigger PC-exclusive titles that have come out in the past few years.